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ADDITAMENTORUM

ADDITAMENTORUM FASCICULUS ALTER.

VOLUME I.

P. 18. To the Books of 1705 add, "Letters from Orinda to Poliarchus. Printed by W. B. for Bernard Lintott, at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleet-street, 1705," Sro.-These, in a subsequent Advertisement, are called "Familiar Letters, written by the late Mrs. Philips to Sir Charles Cottrel, under the Name of Orinda to Poliarchus; printed from the Originals."

P. 19. Add to the Books of 1707, Dr. Thomas Smith's "Life of Cyrillus Lucaris," a Cretan, Patriarch of Constantinople, a well-known Writer and great Controversialist. He sent the famous Alexandrian New Testament, now in the British Museum, to King Charles the First; and was strangled in 1688.

P. 36. "Dr. Townson was acquainted with Mr. Wagstaffe at Rome on his first tour in 1743, and in his second tour in 1768 or 1769. He lived in a court near a Carpenter's shop; and upon Dr. Townson's enquiring for him, the Carpenter knew of no such person.-'He did live somewhere in this yard some years ago."I have been here these thirty years, and no person of such a name has lived here in that time." On farther explanation, he exclaimed, "Oh, you mean Il Predicatore· there!" pointing to the place." R. C.

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P. 47. Three elegant mural monuments, in the Church of Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, are thus inscribed:

1. "To the memory of JOHN HODGES, Esq. and Moses HODGES, Doctor of Divinity.-JOHN HODGES, of Sulgrave, was in religion an orthodox, conscientious, exemplary professor; in loyalty, an inflexible, zealous, dutiful subject; in private trust, an active, provident, punctual manager; in public charity, a wise, liberal, Christian benefactor; having built and endowed a Charity-school for ten poor children with 41. per annum for ever; as also given 41. per annum to be distributed in bread, at 18d. per day, every Lord's-day, to 12 poor families, but only such as attend divine service. He departed this life Feb. 8, 1723-4."-"MOSES HODGES, D.D. was in religion, learning, and loyalty, an ornament to the Church of England, and, by his orthodox preaching, and pious example, a great encourager of all Christian duties, especially that of charity, which crowned all his virtues. Worn out with indefatigable pains in the discharge of his parochial duty as Vicar of St. Mary's in Warwick, he retired to Harvington, in the county of Worcester, where he was Rector, and resigned his soul to Gop Nov. 21, 1724, in the 62d year of his age. He married Martha, the daughter of John VOL. IX. Jephcott,

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Jephcott, D. D.; by whom he left only four daughters, Mary, Theodosia, Anna, and Lydia; Martha, the eldest, being married to Daniel Danvers, Esq. but, to his unspeakable grief, buried in his life-time. As a testimony of their gratitude to the best and dearest of Relations, this monument was erected by Martha the widow, and Mary the daughter, of Moses Hodges, D. D."

2. "Near this place lies buried the body of MARTHA HODGES, wife of Moses Hodges, D. D.; who in all religious and moral duties was exemplary. A devout and pious Christian, a loving and faithful wife, a tender and affectionate parent. In censure cautious; in forgiving ready; in giving liberal. Having thus completed the Christian course, she entered on immortality Dec. 27, 1741, aged 74."

3. "Underneath are deposited the remains of THEODOSIA HODGES, daughter of Moses Hodges, D. D. and Martha his wife; who, after a long and painful illness, which she bore with Christian patience, resign'd her soul to GoD who gave it, Nov. 14, 1757, aged 55. Reader! if thou regardest eternal life, imitate her virtues; learn to be generous and benevolent, to forgive injuries, to administer comfort to the afflicted, to the poor relief; follow after faith, hope, and charity; but, like her, remember that the greatest of these is charity."

P. 167. Mr. James Bedford came from Cambridge in 1648 to Oxford, in order to obtain preferment from the Visitors. Being then B.A. he was made Fellow of Queen's; proceeded B.D. 1657; before then, was Rector of Brontesham and Erith, co. Huntingdon. He wrote and published "The Perusal of an old Statute concerning Death and Judgement. Sermon at Funeral

of Mrs. Frances Bedford, Jan. 18, 1656. Heb. ix. 27. 1657." P. 190. Charles Wheatley was born Feb. 6, 1686, in Paternoster Row, London. He had no claim to high descent; his father was a reputable tradesman; and his mother, a lineal descendant of Ralph brother to Sir Thomas White, founder of St. John's College, Oxford, where Mr. Wheatley afterwards claimed a Fellowship. Jan. 9, 1699, he was entered at Merchant Tailors' School, where, after some time, he was placed under the care of Dr. Matthew Shorting. In 1706 he was entered a Commoner of St. John's; and in 1707 was admitted to a Founder's-kin Fellowship. His tutor was Dr. James Knight, afterwards Vicar of St. Sepulchre, London; a learned and judicious Divine, whose friendship and esteem Mr. Wheatley long preserved, and of whom it was his pride to boast, that he continued his pupil to his dying day;" and added, "to this good and great man, under GOD, I must heartily profess, that, if I have made any knowledge, or have made any progress, it is owing; and, if Í have not, upon myself only be all the shame." This was the friend to whom, with Doctors Waterland and Berriman, he submitted his Sermons on the Creeds, and from whom he acknowledged having received several very useful and instructive hints, which he found very serviceable when he came to enlarge

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and finish them for the press. He took the degree of B. A. 1709; M. A. 1718; resigned his Fellowship; and married, Aug. 16, 1713, Mary daughter to Dr. William Findall, of the Clarendon Press. And here it may be mentioned that Hearne, in one of his Pocket Diaries, has unjustly minuted against Mr. Wheatley a charge of Immorality. Hearne, we know, was a Nonjuror, whose opinions, when directed against the Clergy of an opposite description, were seldom moderate, and sometimes hardly Christian. Not long after his marriage he removed to a Curacy in London; and on May 24, 1717, was chosen Lecturer of St. Mildred's in the Poultry, on the death of Mr. Shepheard. The exact time when he was presented by Dr. Astry (Treasurer of St. Paul's) to the Vicarages of Brent and Furneaux Pelham in Hertfordshire does not appear; nor when he married his second wife, Mary, daughter of the Rev. Daniel Fogg, Minister of Allhallows Staining, who survived him. In domestic life, we are assured by the Editor of his Sermons, he was happy; for both his wives were grave, discreet, and religious. At his own expence he built a Vicarage-house at Furneaux Pelham; and, as his Livings lay contiguous, supplied them both himself. Having procured several benefactions for them, he obtained their augmentation from Q. Anne's Bounty, and, as a farther increment, left them at his death 2001. At Furneaux Pelham he spent the last 14 years of his life; where he died of a dropsy and asthma May 13, 1742.His Works were, 1. "A rational Illustration of the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the Use of the Church of England," London, 1720; which has gone through no less than eight editions.-2. "An historical Vindication of the 85th Canon; shewing that the Form of Biddingprayer, before Sermon, has been prescribed and enjoined ever since the Reformation, London, 1718," 8vo*.—3. “Christian Exceptions to the plain Account of the Nature and End of the Lord's Supper. With a Method proposed for coming at the true and apostolic Sense of that Holy Sacrament," 8vo.-4. "Private Devotions at the Holy Communion, adapted to the Public Office in the Liturgy;" a single sheet, alapted to Common Prayerbooks of all ordinary sizes.-5. "The Nicene and Athanasian Creeds, so far as they are expressive of a co-equal and co-eternal Trinity in Unity, and of perfect Godhead and Manhood in one only Christ, explained and confirmed by the Holy Scriptures, in a Manner adapted to common Apprehensions. In Eight Sermons, preached in part at the Lady Moyer's Lecture, in the Cathedral of St. Paul, London, in the Years 1733 and 1734. London, 1738," 8vo. He likewise printed six single Sermons,

Among the MSS. given by Dr. Rawlinson to the Bodleian Library are several volumes of Miscellaneous Discourses by Mr. Lewis of Margate. In one of them are "Some Remarks on Mr. Wheatley's Notion of the Obligation of the Canons, and his Censure of the Royal Supremacy,” written in 1718.

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which were afterwards added to the 44 prepared for the press by himself, and published, after his death, in three vols. 8vo, by Dr. Berriman, 1753. To the Library of his College he was an occasional benefactor in his life-time; and by his Will bequeathed to it the following Works: "Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, in Eight Books" (corrected in order for a new edition), London, 1723.-Book of Common Prayer, fol. Lond. 1662.-Ordination Offices, collated with the Ordinals.-Common Prayer-book with Mr. Wheatley's MS Remarks.—Wheatley on the Common Prayer, fol. 1723, richly illustrated with MS Notes by Dr. Waterland.— Wheatley on the Common Prayer, 8vo, with the MS Observations of Mr. Robert Watts, Fellow of St. John's.-The same, in two vols. 8vo, interleaved with Mr. Wheatley's own MS Additions. Mr. Wheatley's Collections on the Common Prayer, MS.-His Common-place Book to the Primitive Fathers, MS.His general Index of Ecclesiastical Matters, MS.-His Monatesseron Evangelicum, MS.-A Letter by Dr. Waterland on Laybaptism, MS.-Transcript of Mr. Boyle's Account of the Martyrdom of Theodora and Didymus; being supposed to be taken from the original Draught of this Tract, which Mr. Boyle himself had lost, having, as he owns, re-composed what was printed from memory. In the Library of Sion College, London, is a copy of the Common Prayer, black letter, collated by Mr. Wheatley with the sealed book.

P. 223, note, 1.5. "In proof of this, about the same time a gentleman walking through St. John's College with Dr. Sykes, and observing the inscription on the dial in one of the courts, Vergo ad Occasum, the Doctor styled it a good motto for a nest of Tories.'-This motto another Wag translated a Girl on occasion. I think it was taken down in my time; it was over the door of the screens leading to the middle court." T. F.

P. 257. The Rev. William Newton, Vicar of Gillingham in Dorsetshire, was born at Maidstone in Kent, and had preferments in that county. He repaired the Vicarage-house; and published "A Companion for the Lord's Day, 1716;" several Defences of the Bishop of Bangor's Sermon; the Life of Bishop Kennett; the History of Maidstone, 1741; and several Sermons, and other Religious Tracts. He assisted Mr. Hutchins in his History of Gillingham; and died in London 1744.

P. 274. Add to the Works of Dr. Chishull, "A Charge of Heresy maintained against Mr. Dodwell's late Epistolary Dis course concerning the Mortality of the Soul, 1709," 8vo.-This, Pamphlet, and the several Sermons noticed in p. 274, I believe, were from Mr. Bowyer's press.

P. 330. Selden's inscription was written when twelve years old; and "claudiar" should be "claudar." R.C.

P. 349. Dr. Richard Smalbroke, of All Souls College, Oxford, proceeded M. A. 1740, B. and D. C. L. 1745. In the early part of his life he was an Advocate in Doctors Commons, where his practice was extensive, and his knowledge in the Civil Law highly

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respected. He was joint Chancellor of Lichfield, with his elder brother Thomas, from 1742 till the death of the latter, 1778. Richard died May 8, 1805, aged 89. The duties of his office, as Judge of the Ecclesiastical Court at Lichfield, which he held for the long period of 64 years, he discharged with sound judgment and inflexible integrity.

P. 383. Robert Üvedale, of Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. 1662; M. A. 1666; LL.D. Com. Reg. 1652; was Master of the Grammar School at Enfield about the year 1670. He resided in the old Manor-house in that town, called Queen Elizabeth's Palace; and, being much attached to the study of Botany, had a very curious garden there; and planted, among other trees, a Cedar of Libanus, which (till within these few years) was one of the finest in the kingdom, measuring (in October 1793) 12 feet in the girth. [See the particular measurements, taken by Mr. Leley, Schoolmaster at Enfield, at the desire of Mr. Gough, in Gent. Mag. vol. XLIX. p. 138.] — Dr. Pulteney, in his brief Memoirs of Dr. Leonard Plukenet, says, "I regret that I cannot collect any material anecdotes relating to his friend and fellowcollegian Dr Uvedale, of whom Plukenet ever speaks in a style which indicates that he held him in great esteem.". . . ." The garden which he cultivated at Enfield appears to have been rich in exotic productions; and though he is not known among those who advanced the indigenous Botany of Britain, yet his merit as a Botanist, or his patronage of the Society at large, was considerable enough to incline Pettiver to apply his name to a new plant, which Miller retained in his Dictionary, but which has since passed into the genus Polymnia, of the Linnean System; the author of which has nevertheless retained Uvedalia, as the trivial name." Pulteney's Botanical Sketches, vol. II. p.30."On a dispute between Uvedale and some of the Parishioners of Enfield, it was made a matter of accusation against him, that he had neglected the Children of the Free-school, and deserted the School-house, having taken a large mansion to accommodate his numerous Boarders. These proceedings bear date 1676. Uvedale got the better of his opponents, and was honourably reinstated in the School from which he had been ejected by some of the Feoffees. One of his opponents, in his allegation, charges him with having obtained from the Lord Chamberlain an appointment as an Actor and Comedian at the Theatre Royal, to protect him (as being one of his Majesty's Servants) from the execution of a bond which had been sued out against him." Lysons.Of some of his Scholars at Enfield see vol. V. p. 348.

P. 425, note, 1. 30, for "through," r. “ to."

P. 451. "In the account of Dr. Short, the date of his daughter's death is twice misprinted, 1788 for 1798. The brass plate which contained this inscription was removed, with many others, when the church of Sheffield was new pewed about the year 1802. I have many curious anecdotes, which illustrate the character of this Physician, but are too trivial for such a work as

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